Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:20:08 GMT From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Message-ID: <200602091120.k19BK8T5072625@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> To: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:18:40 +0100 Quoting "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>: > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net> wrote: >> >> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and >> >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006). >> >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but >> >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet. >> >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then hang) >> > >> > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and >> > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD >> > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS. >> > >> > Try this and report back ;-) >> > >> Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of >> 133Mhz) seems to work... >> >> I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have it >> on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the moment... >> > > Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos > that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of > the OS. > >> I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ? >> > > I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware > config problem tho YMMV. > Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in looader.conf. Thanks for that :) I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=233 that a dsdt specific for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days... Geoffroy ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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